Category: Custom Coaching

Do you miss the forest for the trees? Are you sometimes nearsighted when it comes to your work? Good business vision can help you see the entire picture. Children are told to eat their carrots to improve their vision but entrepreneurs need to eat their carrots, too. Some entrepreneurs become fixated on one particular thing in[…]

A recent conversation about ancestry got us thinking about legacy and how it influences our future. Many times, we’ve seen history repeat itself because we’ve not learned from it. This applies to business history, too. Having your own business can feel like a series of rapid prototyping projects. We keep testing until we get the[…]

Do you hustle? No, not this hustle. Generally, do you hustle? Do you take a hard look at your business, your business environment and use experimentation to navigate your way forward? It’s time to look for outside inspiration: The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones have been hustling since 1962 and this exhibition drives that point home for[…]

Fear. We all experience it. Occasionally, fear gets the better of us. Naturally, we look upon it with an unkind eye but we should rethink that. In business, it is possible to be afraid of any number of things: failure, success, growth, making mistakes, rejection, the unknown, change, etc. Fear can be crippling if we are[…]

Previously, we’ve talked about the Lean Canvas Model, building block questions, value propositions, pivots and empathy. The one thing that’s key to success as we build and grow our businesses? Employees. It turns out we won’t be successful until we’ve convinced our teams to come along for the ride. 51% of employees are looking for a job at any one[…]

All businesses have peaks and valleys. When we’re at our peaks, it’s a great feeling. Like we are geniuses, that we’ve hit the jackpot and can eat all the chocolate cake in the world without gaining a pound. Sales and revenues are doing nothing but going up. It’s a time of elation and it’s hard[…]

Embracing the Unknowns & Asking the Right Questions We know our clients want answers. That’s why they come to us. It’s also why we start all our engagements with questions. Open-ended and targeted questions help us better determine what assumptions and biases our clients have about their business or path. We can also quickly glean[…]

We develop and deliver corporate strategy recommendations with a decidedly different approach. We’ve found when you focus on something “soft” like empathy, you can still deliver work predicated on “hard” skills. In fact, we find that we can do even more.